Jurassic Park db forum

I was just thinking about Jack Horner's work on the JP movies; how did they use him in the making of the films? i.e. Would Spielberg and crew give him the storyboards and tell him what the dinosaur would do in the scene, and he would say if it was accurate? Or did they have Horner telling them what dinosaurs could/couldn't do, and give some insight into their behaviour, and then they would base what the dinosaurs' movement and behaviour in scenes upon that knowledge? Or maybe it was both of these things?

Also was Horner the sole paleontologist consultant on the films or was there a team that he was in charge of?

Pretty much a combination of all the things you mentioned. I think he also helped with the way the dinos looked. If you watch the "Making of" documentary on the JP DVD you get a glimpse of some of the stuff he did. They don't show much for the TLW and JP3 documentaries(that I can recall). Though I remember he disapproved when they had the Spino running too fast.

I could be mistaken but I think he was part of a team of consultants.

Jack Horner also convinced animator Phil Tippett (sp?) to remove a "lizard tongue" from the raptors that he had inserted in a stop-motion pre-visualization of the raptors in the kitchen sequence.